<正> TEM in situ tensile tests of 310 stainless steel show that a dislocation freezone (DFZ) forms if the displacement keeps constant after dislocations are emitted from acrack tip. The elastic DFZ is gradually thinned and the stress in the DFZ will reach thecohesive strength, resulting in nucleation of nanocracks in it and their bluntness into voids.If continuously tensioning, the inhomogeneously thinning ahead of the crack tip, initiat-ing and connecting of microcracks or microvoids will be observed rather than a DFZ,nanocracks' initiation and bluntness into voids. The inverse pile-up ahead of a loadedcrack tip can move back to the crack tip when unloading.